Postmodern London landmark No 1 Poultry gets listed status

Postmodern London landmark No 1 Poultry gets listed status

No 1 Poultry in the City of London. Photography: Rob Low for The Spaces

James Stirling’s Postmodern building No 1 Poultry was awarded Grade II*-listed status today, making it England’s youngest listed building.

Completed in 1998, the candy-striped No 1 Poultry was architect Stirling’s last project, finished five years after his death by Michael Wilford.

One of the City of London’s most prominent examples of postmodern architecture – still deemed the ‘marmite’ of the design world – the building sits on a wedge-shaped site and features a pink and yellow limestone façade.

The building is famous for its ‘candy-striped’ limestone façade. Photography: Rob Low for The Spaces

Historic England’s announcement follows a successful appeal by The 20th Century Society, which initially tried to list the building in December 2015. The Society objected to Buckley Gray Yeoman’s planning application to fill in the building’s colonnade and alter its windows.

Roger Bowdler, director of listing at Historic England, said: ‘We are delighted that No 1 Poultry has now been listed. It is one of London’s best-known modern buildings, a key work of late 20th century architecture, by one of England’s leading post-war architects, James Stirling.’